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Republicans blasted new regulations for Title IX being ushered successful by President Biden's Department of Education that would protect gender personality from discrimination, while rolling backmost Trump-era rules that bolstered nan authorities of those accused of intersexual misconduct.
"The Biden management has wholly mislaid its measurement connected Title IX," Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said successful a statement. Cassidy serves arsenic ranking personnel of nan Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
He prefaced that his agency is still examining nan caller regulations, "but it appears to beryllium an effort by nan Biden administration to prosecute an ideological schedule connected gender personality and inject national bureaucrats into nan parent-child relationship."
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Republican lawmakers, including senators Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn, slammed President Biden's Title IX changes. (Getty Images)
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., nan president of nan HELP committee, did not supply remark to Fox News Digital.
Biden announced caller regulations for Title IX Friday morning, which included expanding nan meaning of activity favoritism to see some intersexual predisposition and gender identity, which nan president's management touts arsenic protection for LGBT students.
The unveiled norm changes besides rolled backmost regulations put successful spot by erstwhile Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that ensured owed process for nan accused.
The unveiled norm changes rolled backmost nan regulations put successful spot by erstwhile Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ensuring owed process for nan accused. (Yuri Gripas)
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona shouted nan announcement of nan rules.
"These last regulations build connected nan bequest of Title IX by clarifying that each our nation’s students tin entree schools that are safe, welcoming and respect their rights," Cardona said.
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"Title IX was meant to protect female students from activity discrimination," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Sadly, nan Biden administration’s caller Title IX norm does nan nonstop other and makes it harder for schools to protect women.
"As we saw successful nan tragic Loudon County case, these kinds of woke policies are putting our daughters astatine risk," Cruz warned, mentioning an arena successful bluish Virginia wherever a female student was sexually assaulted successful a bath by a antheral student wearing a skirt.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona shouted nan announcement of nan rules. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., said successful a connection nan regulations are "not astir protecting students." Instead, he claimed Biden's rules are "about appeasing nan extremist members of their guidelines by imposing woke policies that rob women and girls of adjacent opportunities and jeopardize their safety."
Reacting to nan rules, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., claimed, nan "left wants to usage it arsenic a instrumentality to further its woke gender ideology."
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"We place arsenic pissed off," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital successful a statement.
The congresswoman claimed Biden's management is "effectively saying that women's information is expendable" pinch nan caller rules.
"Recent incidents, for illustration nan appalling rape of a female successful Rikers by a biologic male, are a stark reminder of nan very existent dangers posed by these reckless policies. This isn't progress; this is regression astatine its worst, and women are paying nan price," she continued.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., looks toward different members of Congress doing tv interviews astatine nan U.S. Capitol Jan. 18, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who has made protecting women's sports a legislative priority, said successful a statement, "Today, nan Biden management redefined nan meaning of a ‘woman.'
"This intends that biologic women now person zero safe spaces and nary existent identity."
Tuberville precocious offered an amendment to a national authorities spending package, adding his Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act to it past month. However, nan Senate voted on statement lines to cull it, including nan amendment successful nan monolithic authorities spending bill.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., besides warned of nan norm changes' effect connected women's sports, telling Fox News Digital successful a statement, "Regardless of nan propaganda being pushed by nan left, men and women are biologically different. We’ve seen how Joe Biden's imagination for female sports will consequence successful 2 teams – 1 squad of men and different squad of folks that utilized to beryllium men."
Two legislature aides informed Fox News Digital that lawmakers were briefed connected nan changes Friday by Catherine Lhamon, nan adjunct caput successful nan Office for Civil Rights astatine nan DOE. According to nan sources, Lhamon reiterated that nan regulations would not impact schoolhouse athletics because nan rulemaking process related to this is still ongoing. They added that nary clarity was provided arsenic to really sports would beryllium unaffected erstwhile gender personality will beryllium protected from discrimination.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., besides warned of nan norm changes' effect connected women's sports. (Chip Somodevilla)
The aides additionally raised concerns complete nan department's deficiency of a scheme for assisting schools pinch implementation, which is required by Aug. 1. The sources said rules are traditionally rolled retired pinch a scheme to coordinate implementation pinch schools. This often includes webinars, they said.
When asked if location was a scheme to assistance schools pinch implementation, a spokesperson for nan section did not reply straight but shared that it would beryllium disposable to supply method assistance and different resources erstwhile deemed appropriate.
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Democratic House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., disagreed pinch her Republican counterparts, telling Fox News Digital successful a statement, "I’m grateful to nan Biden-Harris management for defending gender equality and protecting nan information and well-being of students crossed nan country.
"We must guidelines up for nan basal dignity of each personification amid truthful overmuch hateful rhetoric and unit against [transgender] younker and women."
